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Week Winners = League Winners
Nothing tells the story of a fantasy football season quite like boom scoring weeks. We owe our successes in a given season to monster scoring performances that help us accumulate weekly wins. There are league winners – players who finish the season at the top of their positions in scoring – but the game is played in weekly matchups.
League winners are those players who win weeks with elite scoring output. Wide receivers are some of the top scorers in fantasy football every season. The best fantasy wide receivers are able to produce 40- or 50-point scoring booms. Those kinds of explosions are rare, but every week, there are players who produce 20-point performances and carry fantasy teams to crucial wins.
The Best Fantasy Wide Receivers of 2024: Week-winning Performances
Below, we look at the best fantasy wide receivers of 2024, those who produced weeks of 20 points or more at a high frequency. There were 232 20-plus point performances in the 2024 season. That’s an average of 13.9 per week – more than one per team in a 12-team league. 24 or more points is another interesting threshold to consider. There were an average of 6.5 24-plus point performances per week this season. Some weeks, there was just one 24-point scoring boom. Those more scarce 24-point weeks are more likely to net you a win.
Here are the players who notched at least five 20-plus point weeks on the season:
Ja’Marr Chase was the best fantasy wide receiver in 2024, recording the most 20-point weeks and the most 24-point booms. That included three ridiculous outings of 40 or more points. He won weeks and won leagues. Justin Jefferson was consistent, with just as many 20-point weeks as Chase, but the Vikings’ No. 1 receiver notched only two 24-point weeks (both over 30). Other players like A.J. Brown and George Kittle had a relatively high number of 20-plus point performances (six and five, respectively), but relatively few 24-point booms (one each).
Boom Weeks
Below, we take a look at the wide receivers with the most boom weeks (24-plus performances) of 2024. The best fantasy wide receivers recorded at least three 24-point weeks during the season.
There were some players like Jameson Williams and Jauan Jennings who put together at least three week-winning 24-plus point performances but finished outside the top-24 in PPG at the wide receiver position. Nevertheless, they shaped the fantasy season and fantasy managers who rostered them had some leverage in the weeks when they hit.
Each of these players who achieved a 24-point boom during the season had a quarterback capable of facilitating such a ceiling outcome (the exception being the indomitable talent that is Malik Nabers). As we see below in the team analysis, there are certain quarterbacks who are more capable of facilitating production for their pass catchers.
Boom Weeks by Team
Below are the teams whose wide receivers produced at least four 24-plus point boom weeks from Weeks 1 through 17.
This data points to the value of the quarterback in facilitating ceiling production for his pass catchers. The list of QBs whose pass catchers achieved high-end outcomes has some unsurprising names: Joe Burrow, Aaron Rodgers, Brock Purdy, Jared Goff, Matthew Stafford, Jalen Hurts, Tua Tagovailoa, Jordan Love and Jameis Winston. Some, like Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, Daniel Jones and Caleb Williams, were a little more surprising. All of those, however, were throwing to elite pass catchers: Mike Evans/Chris Godwin, Justin Jefferson, Malik Nabers, Keenan Allen/DJ Moore. Jayden Daniels was another revelation this season. Terry McLaurin is no slouch, but Daniels is turning out to be an exceedingly capable NFL QB.
Identifying the quarterbacks who can produce premium outcomes for their pass catchers is a path to rostering the best fantasy wide receivers available in a given season. The best quarterbacks for fantasy production produce huge boom weeks for their wide receivers. Those scoring booms help fantasy gamers win weekly matchups. Winning weeks means winning leagues.